CoreCodec, the company behind the high-performance CoreAVC H.264 implementation, issued an apology this morning for its recent abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that broadly prohibits circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms.

DMCA hitchikes north to Canada, catches a lift with Conservatives Intellectual Property Protection Act to make attemped infringement illegal New Zealand copyright reform law schools US DMCA on fair use YouTube names names: why is anyone surprised? In a DMCA takedown notice sent to Google over the weekend, CoreCodec demanded that Google cease hosting coreavc-for-linux, an open source project that provided a Linux compatibility layer for the CoreAVC codec. The DMCA notice claimed that the open-source project infringes CoreCodec's copyright and includes CoreAVC code. Although Google complied with the notice and removed the project, the allegations made by CoreCodec were entirely without merit. The coreavc-for-linux project contains no infringing code and is merely a compatibility wrapper that enables legitimately purchased copies of CoreAVC to be used by Linux users.